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Twenty people died in collision with, or on board, a London bus last year, according to the latest data. This included 10 pedestrians, two cyclists and eight passengers. This compares with 17 bus-related fatalities in 2023, of which seven were pedestrians, and marks a 17% year on year increase.more

The Metropolitan Police will have to lose 1,700 officers, PCSOs and staff and cut a number of services as it faces a £260m hole in its budget for the coming year, the force has said. The Royal Parks police team will go, as will officers placed in schools.more

The Met Office has issued a rare amber wildfire warning for London and most of the UK, as temperatures are set to reach 21C in the capital. The warning is in place for most of England, stretching from Dover in Kent and Wiltshire and will extend into Northern Ireland and southern Scotland on Wednesday.more

London's transport network is set to be hit by a variety of closures and suspensions over the coming month. Transport for London (TfL) has shared a full list of the disruptions expected to affect the London Underground and other services in April 2025 on its website.more

Almost half of appeals against London boroughs and TfL result in victory for drivers, writes Standard.co.uk.more

English councils must prove that they are tackling potholes or face losing funds, Sir Keir Starmer has said. The prime minister announced an additional £4.8 billion of funding to undertake work on motorways and major A-roads. He emphasised that councils must “get on with the job” of fixing potholes.more

A fire that led to the closure of Heathrow last week is no longer being treated as a “potentially criminal matter”, Scotland Yard has said. The Metropolitan police’s counter terrorism command had been leading the investigation to establish the cause of the blaze at the nearby electrical substation in Hayes, west London, that started on Thursday evening and was still burning on Friday.more

A city-wide spectacle will see London filled with more than 100 giant decorated eggs. The Big Egg Hunt 2025 trail will include sites at Battersea Power Station, Covent Garden, Chelsea, Marylebone, Marble Arch and Canary Wharf, as well as Buckingham Palace, the Barbican and the Saatchi Gallery.more

Olympic gold medallist Imogen Grant says the row between Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Clubs over selection for this year's Boat Races is "very unfair".more

More than 1,000 incidents of asbestos have been discovered in parliament and at least 44 fires have broken out over the past decade, figures show. The details of the prevalence of the toxic material in the parliament buildings were released to the Labour peer and former cabinet minister Peter Hain.more

Further action is needed to encourage the roll-out of full-fibre internet connectivity across London, City Hall was told on Tuesday. While significant progress has been made in boosting high-speed coverage in the capital over recent years, parts of the city are still blighted by ‘not-spots’ where Londoners struggle with slow internet.more

More than 60 per cent of people in the UK have mould in their homes, according to Uswitch’s latest Mouldy Nation Report, an increase from 58 percent last year.more

A latest weather forecast is showing there is a possibility of snow falling in London very soon, which really makes the glorious sunshine we had at the weekend already feel like a lifetime away. According to WX Charts we could be hit by a flurry of snow between 6am and 9am tomorrow (Thursday, March 13).more

With over 50,000 plants to be found across the grounds, Kew Gardens in Richmond is well worth a visit. But the UNESCO World Heritage site is not the most affordable.more

Tower Bridge was temporarily shut down after a person climbed up the railings. The incident saw the bridge in central London being "closed to traffic and pedestrians" with the public being urged to "avoid the area where possible".more

A man has been charged by police after scaling Big Ben's Elizabeth Tower at the Palace of Westminster in central London on Saturday. Daniel Day, 29, of Palmerston Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, has been charged with causing a public nuisance and trespassing on a protected site after climbing onto the clock tower, the Metropolitan Police said.more

Travelling by car in London can be both a nightmare and cost a fortune. On top of that, finding well-priced parking in the capital can also be a tall order.more

People in London have been breathing significantly cleaner air since the expansion of the ultra low emission zone (Ulez), a study has found. Levels of deadly pollutants that are linked to a wide range of health problems – from cancer to impaired lung development, heart attacks to premature births – have dropped, with some of the biggest improvements coming in the capital’s most deprived areas.more

Move over Leyton, there's officially a new cool kid on the block. The Sunday Times has christened Penge one of the trendiest postcodes to move to in not just London, but the entire UK.more

Emergency services have cordoned off the area surrounding Big Ben after a man scaled one of the buildings in the Palace of Westminster. At least nine emergency service vehicles lined Bridge Street in central London and crowds looked on from beyond a police cordon.more

London has been named the most expensive place to use public transport in the world following a hike in Transport for London prices last week (Sunday, March 2).more

More than 900,000 Londoners say they are unable to work full-time because of a long-term health condition – including a rising number of younger adult Londoners blaming mental health issues. A City Hall report has revealed that, over the last decade, there has been a 62 per cent increase in the number of Londoners reporting a work-limiting mental health condition.more

Camden Council has given the go-ahead to pedestrianise Camden High Street to create a "less stressful" experience.more

London’s rental inflation seems to be on the wane as data released today by Zoopla shows rents in the capital increased by 1.1 per cent in the year to January.more

‘Crude Oil (Vettriano)’ a Banksy painting inspired by the work of the recently deceased Scottish painter Jack Vettriano, was sold yesterday in the UK for £4.3 million (more than £21 million), AFP reported.more